cve/2005/CVE-2005-4134.md

CVE-2005-4134

Description

Mozilla Firefox 1.5, Netscape 8.0.4 and 7.2, and K-Meleon before 0.9.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and delayed application startup) via a web site with a large title, which is recorded in history.dat but not processed efficiently during startup. NOTE: despite initial reports, the Mozilla vendor does not believe that this issue can be used to trigger a crash or buffer overflow in Firefox. Also, it has been independently reported that Netscape 8.1 does not have this issue.

POC

Reference

• http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=113404911919629&w=2
• http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=113405896025702&w=2
• http://www.networksecurity.fi/advisories/netscape-history.html
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0199.html

Github

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